Agile + DevOps East 2021 - Software Tester
Customize your Agile + DevOps East 2021 experience with sessions for software testers.
Monday, November 15
What DevOps Means for Testers and Testing
DevOps is more than a buzzword or a passing fad. It's a radically new approach to rapidly deliver high-quality software applications. However, many organizations don’t fully grasp the magnitude of this change or what it means for everyone involved in the software development lifecycle. Jeffery Payne says that DevOps—when done right—drives higher quality and efficiency into software development, software testing, and application management activities. It empowers teams to remove impediments to quality and productivity throughout the entire software lifecycle. However, when DevOps is done...
A Beginner's Guide to AI and Testing
NewAI has been rapidly changing the way we approach software testing. Traditional test automation is time-consuming to create and breaks down easily in the presence of change. Thankfully, AI is helping testing teams create less procedural, more resilient tests that are able to self-heal in the presence of modern, rapidly changing, highly dynamic production systems. This sounds great, but you may be asking yourself: How do I get started? What additional skills do I need to learn? What tools are available for me to start using, right now? Join Dionny Santiago as he breaks down different AI...
Wednesday, November 17
Containerizing Tests In Your CI/CD Pipeline
Managing your continuous integration server is an essential part of practicing DevOps, but it's easy to let it run away from you. Domain-specific languages, plugins, and configurations can result in servers so heavily customized that the test environment ceases to be replicable, and you become locked into your specific choice of CI server. Your CI server might not support the tool you're trying to use. Containerization is a simple way to push back against creeping complexity in your CI server. With containers, you can define configuration as code alongside your test, produce modular,...
Thursday, November 18
Building a Winning Cross-Browser Testing Strategy with Selenium, Cypress and BDD
Digital channels are at the core of every business, however, with the growing technologies around web including progressive web (PWAs,), Responsive web and mobile, teams are required to build continuous testing into each and every build and within the cycle. Advancements in leading frameworks like Selenium and Cypress together with BDD (Cucumber) that supports both are positioned high in the priority of organizations as part of their shift-left of testing. In this session, Eran Kinsbruner will walk through the key benefits of both these frameworks, the main uses cases per persona and...